US Immigration News

UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, met with Hong Kong activists at Westminster recently ahead of the launch of the new British National (Overseas) visa scheme. 

 

Patel held a one-hour session with former lawmaker Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Beatrice Li, whose brother Andy Li was one of 12 people detained by Shenzhen authorities while attempting to flee Hong Kong for Taiwan in August.

Announcements circulating on social media claim that a migrant caravan is heading for the US southern border. Following two massive hurricanes causing devastation across Central America, it’s understood that thousands of migrants from Chile, Cuba, Guyana, Honduras, Paraguay and other Central American nations ravaged by storms are headed for the USA.

 

Workpermit.com recently reported that a US court had ordered the Trump administration to reopen the DACA program to new applicants. Following that ruling, US immigration officials have now restored the program and have now started accepting applications from first-time applicants.

 

The US Temporary Protected Status (TPS) immigration route has been extended for people coming to America from disaster-struck countries.

A US visa reciprocity fee imposed on Nigerians has been removed. The news has been welcomed by the Nigerian government following a wave of US visa sanctions imposed on the African nation. In October, Workpermit.com reported that Nigeria had been hit by a US green card lottery ban.  

 

In yet another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict US immigration, a judge has ordered that the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program must be reopened to new applicants. The program, which protects some young immigrants in the US from deportation, was closed to new applicants in July.

 

The ruling by Judge Nicholas Garaufis means that the Trump administration must reopen the program to first time applicants and restore the period of protection to two years.